Eighteen students and two teachers are dead after a gunman entered an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and opened fire. 

The Maine Department of Education has removed a video introducing the concepts of sexual orientation and gender identity to kindergarten students from its website after it became the subject of an attack ad in the state’s upcoming gubernatorial election.

An Indiana pastor has been accused of taking the virginity of a 16-year-old on his office floor while she was wearing a purity ring.

Robert Jeffress has called on churches to have a “zero-tolerance policy” amid the release of a report which found that Southern Baptist Convention leadership failed to properly handle sex abuse allegations.

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• More Dangerous Than Atheism? The Threatening Issue Festering in the Church 
• 18 students, 2 teacher killed in shooting at Texas school | U.S. News 
•  Maine nixes kindergarten LGBT lesson plan following backlash | U.S. News 
•  Pastor resigns, accused of having sex with 16-y-o on office floor | Church & Ministries News 
•  NSBA mulled asking for military presence at school board meetings | U.S. News 
•  NBA’s Jonathan Isaac says Gospel gives him strength to defy crowd | Living News 
•  Chris Pratt and Katherine ‘beyond blessed’ to welcome new baby | Entertainment News 
•  Robert Jeffress says SBC churches must have no tolerance of abuse | U.S. News